By ShaneCultra DSAD.com: The newest Domain Sherpa is now live and it has a new panel. But a panel you might be familiar with, just in different chairs. Michael Cyger joins the show today and from the results, I think he’ll be a regular. If you’re coming from the show and this is one of…

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: Every day, since 2009, we’ve been covering the domain industry’s news, using a unique approach. Whether it’s breaking news, or caustic parody news about domain names, we rarely missed a day. New readers have more than 8,200 posts to peruse, and we’re making things easier for everyone to review older articles, ……

By James Iles NamePros.com: According to DNJournal’s chart of the top one hundred sales of 2017, there were six domains listed as selling for over $1 million. There’s likely to be another seven-figure sale, which we are currently trying to verify. The domain in question is Explore.com, a name that was acquired by the TikiTour…

By Aaron DSAD.com: Listed below are updates on the top 10 domain sales from a year ago, as ranked by DN Journal. 1. Refi.com sold for $500,000 The domain was picked up by individuals affiliated with the lender at FirstDirectLending.com, and you get what you would expect at the site, with a focus on refinancing…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: NameSummit 2018, a digital branding conference, takes place in New York, on August 6th and 7th. A big part of the event will be Pitchfest, and starting this year it’s done in collaboration with NamesCon. During NamesCon 2018, in Las Vegas, NameSummit promoted Pitchfest. The happening will attract entrepreneurs eager to promote…

By Travis M. DSAD.com: A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on March 17, 2018. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had…

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: NameJet had six of the top ten sales yesterday. The top sale of the day was ProjectSpark.com which sold for $3,002 at DropCatch. NameBio recorded 207 sales for a total of $86,829 with an average sale price of $419. Compared to the previous day there was a decrease of 8% in…

By Raymond Hackney TLDInvestors.com: Daily Domain Picks 3-18-18 I do wonder where all the crypto experts went, from those that didn’t mention Crypto or Bitcoin until November of 2017 to those saying it was obvious Ripple was going to $3. Like every market you need to have knowledge, patience and a bankroll. You need to…

By ShaneCultra DSAD.com: There are a lot of people learning a hard lesson. As much as I loved watching everyone make money in crypto I knew that it had to fail. When a coin is tied to nothing but the desire to own there will be the eventual point where there aren’t enough people with…

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise…

Michael Gilmour: Over the last few weeks I’ve been unpacking the traits of truth, trust and learning and how they’ve helped me in my own personal relationships. A good way of thinking about the principles is as the three points of a triangle. In this article I’m going to explore what is in the centre…

By NamePros Daily Domaining Tips: Today: The fastest way for a new domain investor to make a profit / Domain Investing Looks Easy… / Just SOLD CryptoCorp .com for $16.5k / And more! Here are the new domain discussions and domain news. GEO Domains wanted – Be sure to double check your portfolio for a…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: Every day, since 2009, we’ve been covering the domain industry’s news, using a unique approach. Whether it’s breaking news, or caustic parody news about domain names, we rarely missed a day. New readers have more than 8,200 posts to peruse, and we’re about to make things easier for everyone to review older…

By Alvin Brown The Domains: ☘ Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘ It’s been quiet on the emoji domain front since reporting nearly 6-7K emoji domain expirations over the last month or so. Although the wave of emoji domains expiring in auction has somewhat died down, this week brings 123 emoji domains nearing auction end. There…

By Travis M. DSAD.com: A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on March 16, 2018. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: If you are on the lookout for a career change, Uniregistry – a DomainGang sponsor – is currently hiring. There are various positions with the company, a growing domain registrar, registry and domain marketplace. Currently, the locale of these positions is in the Grand Cayman, and Manchester, UK. Uniregistry is looking for……

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: The Web Design Museum has been storing web design trends between 1995 and 2005. It all started in the Czech Republic in 1996, when Petr Kovar first logged onto the Internet from his parents’ home. Checking the Internet for a maximum two hours a day, Kovar would visit web sites such as…

By Aaron DSAD.com: Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with data courtesy of NameBio. Flips KUL.com sold for 43,143 USD on 2018-03-09 at Sedo, vs 22,000 USD on 2017-02-05 at BQDN. The LLL.com market in general hasn’t doubled over the past year, so this is an outlier. The current…

By Konstantinos Zournas OnlineDomain.com: The domain name Purple.com was sold for $900,000 in 2017. The sales price was reported in a SEC filing from PURPLE INNOVATION, LLC. (Note 5, Page 14) Purple Innovation is an American comfort technology company based in Alpine, Utah, USA. It specializes in the direct-to-consumer sale of mattresses, seat cushions, back…

By Raymond Hackney TLDInvestors.com: A lot of times the domains wanted section on Namepros leads to frustration for both buyers and sellers. Buyers get a ton of pm’s with names they specifically said they were not looking for. Sellers see new threads where someone says they will buy their 3L.com for $5,000 to $8,000 or…

By Raymond Hackney The Domains: George Kirikos who sought retweets as currency for his research efforts, set up a series of clues on a domain that sold last year that would chart in the top 10 for 2017 domain sales. The domain is Purple.com, I was really the only one playing along with George, and…

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: The top sale of the day was Ruffian.com which sold for $24,250 at GoDaddy. NameBio recorded 225 sales for a total of $154,459 with an average sale price of $686. Compared to the previous day there was an increase of 20% in the number of sales and the total dollar amount…

By Raymond Hackney The Domains: Page Howe is going to be doing a real time AMA (Ask Me Anything) in the Namepros chatroom today. Page posted: So one of the best things about domain forums from back in the day was the chatroom. I’ve talked with Eric over the past year about doing some specific-time…

By Josh E DSAD.com: Happy Saint Paddy’s day. Today is the day where everyone’s Irish and you have an excuse to start drinking at breakfast. Shane told us the other day about the fire at his property and the firefighters that came and put the fire out. I’m writing this too late to ask him,…

By ShaneCultra DSAD.com: .Here are today’s names. Click on them for current price Quote of the Day: Domain of the Day: Namejet and Sedo Names at Auction Godaddy Domains That I Like With Multiple Bids OAR.org OAR.com came up and sold. Now you can add the dot org. 1996 domain HinduAstrology.com 582,000 ba… Source: Domaining…

By Raymond Hackney TLDInvestors.com: Daily Domain Picks 3-17-18 Top sales/closes from yesterday: Big dollars for a 6N.com as 628888.com closed at $22,301 on NameJet. Ruffian.com a solid name for a MMA brand or perhaps maybe a video game of some kind. The domain closed at $24,250 at GoDaddy. ruffian.com 24,250 USD 2018-03-16 GoDaddy 628888.com 22,301…

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise…

By John Colascione StrategicRevenue.com: NEW YORK – In light of another three to be cut, let’s take a look at Who’s pulling out, of the WhoIs, entirely. The following is a list of new gTLD operators who have decided that running their own dots is not something they wish to pursue and have notified ICANN…

By Morgan MorganLinton.com: So this is a new one, for me at least. I came across an article one domain “snapping” which didn’t ring a bell so I had to dig deeper to understand what the article was about. Was there a new term that I somehow missed after all of these years? According to…

By Elliot Silver It seems that UDRP filings have been increasing every year, and 2017 was no different. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the largest UDRP provider. Yesterday evening, WIPO published a report about UDRP filings in 2017, and I wanted to share some of the facts with you. 2017 WIPO UDRP Facts:…

By Neil Patel It’s no secret that people from different generations have different values, mindsets, and behaviors. As a business, you’ve to use this concept to your advantage. All too often I see companies that launch a broad stroke marketing campaign in an attempt to reach as many customers as possible. While I commend the…

By Elliot Silver When I sell a domain name, I don’t usually know how it will be used. I can make an educated assumption based on the buyer and the domain name, but I don’t always have a clear picture of how it will be used. On occasion, I will look back to track how…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: When it comes down to trademarking your brand, and its matching online address, the domain name, there are good and bad approaches. Quite often, domain investors might want to preserve a valuable domain by registering it as a trademark. That, might not be the best approach, however. When you attempt to register…

By Theo Develegas Acro: It’s great witnessing the domain industry work together, watching each other’s back. Domains can be valuable assets, that are intangible; we can’t lock them inside one’s house, or a box even. Their lifespan is dependent on their owners’ ability to renew them, sometimes at the last minute. In the case of…

By Theo Develegas Acro: It’s great witnessing the domain industry work together, watching each other’s back. Domains can be valuable assets, that are intangible; we can’t lock them inside one’s house, or a box even. Their lifespan is dependent on their owners’ ability to renew them, sometimes at the last minute. In the case of…

By Travis M. DSAD.com: A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on March 15, 2018. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had…

By Travis M. DSAD.com: A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on March 15, 2018. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had…

By Elliot Silver DomainInvesting.com: It seems that UDRP filings have been increasing every year, and 2017 was no different. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the largest UDRP provider. Yesterday evening, WIPO published a report about UDRP filings in 2017, and I wanted to share some of the facts with you. 2017 WIPO UDRP…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: Buckley Media Group, the domain brokerage business of Kate Buckley, has listed QO.com on its exclusive domain inventory. Registered in 1996, the premium two letter domain is part of an elite group of only 676 combinations. The letter ‘Q’ is definitely appreciated by the Chinese. Kate Buckley announced the availability of ……

By The Frager factor The Frager factor: Rare Steve jobs video; The World’s First Bionic Kidney Is All Set To Replace Dialysis; Seeing vs. reading is the key to creativity; How To Build A Great Career In Marketing When You Have No Connections; New tax tools on Coinbase; I downloaded all my Facebook data –…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: Toys ‘R’ Us is closing its doors, sending its 31,000 employees into unemployment; meanwhile, the former toy giant will be filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation. That means, that all corporate assets will be sold in order to pay off as much debt as possible. Employees get nothing, and that doesn’t come…

By Elliot Silver DomainInvesting.com: When I sell a domain name, I don’t usually know how it will be used. I can make an educated assumption based on the buyer and the domain name, but I don’t always have a clear picture of how it will be used. On occasion, I will look back to track…

By Raymond Hackney TLDInvestors.com: Daily Domain Picks 3-16-18 Top sales/closes from yesterday: Huv.com going for $16,100, with all the talk in the CQD.com Namepros thread about an LLL being a retirement plan, $16,100 not much of a retirement, now of course this name would be less desirable in the Chinese market than CQD. For a…

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: NameJet had the top three sales yesterday led by HUV.com which sold for $16,100. NameBio recorded 187 sales for a total of $133,742 with an average sale price of $715. Compared to the previous day there was a decrease of 13% in the number of sales and the total dollar amount…

By Jamie Zoch DotWeekly: Domain Movers highlights domain name transactions of companies around the world. These are very important domain name assets being acquired and DotWeekly highlights them for you. To note, this week has been challenging doing research. CSC started showing some restricted whois data at DomainTools, and GoDaddy continues to do so as…

By ShaneCultra DSAD.com: We taped the newest DomainSherpa yesterday and it sure was nice having Micheal back on the show. As a person that does tv shows and two or three podcast a week it is nice to see someone that is so polished as a speaker. It takes a lot of practice and the…